Frederick Winslow Taylor, an American mechanical engineer, published his "Principles of Scientific Management" over 100 years ago in which he laid out Industrial-era organization and decision theory.

Over the last two decades, the sad truth is that management has failed to advance as a discipline. Earlier articles in this series, here and here, showed how well-intended efforts to reform individual ...

Frederick W. Taylor – widely regarded as the founder of scientific management – revolutionized how businesses operate by introducing time-motion studies, standardized processes and incentive-based ...

In the early 1900s, Henri Fayol developed a modern management theory that business leaders still use today. Fayol's theory was honed while he worked his way up the ladder to become the director of a ...

This guide to Peter Drucker's management theory explains its basic concept and how to apply it to your small business. Peter Drucker was an influential Austrian-American author, mentor and consultant ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...